Question

Why britain came to be known as workshop of the world?

Answer 1

Mechanised manufacturing of cotton textiles made Britain the leading industrial nation in the nineteenth century.Additionally, with the growth of its iron and steel industry from the 1850s, Britain came to be known as the “workshop of the world”.The beginning of the iron and steel industry in Britain helped it to build everything, right from buttons to cars. 

Answer 2

Answer:

The industrial revolution promoted the world's first industrial and consumer-based society in Britain, the united kingdom becomes the workshop of the world because the first industrial revolution had taken place in Britain, in the 19 century England was alone producing half of the world's industrial manufactured goods.